Staff Profile: Monique Laflamme, MA, MTA
Music therapy is a regular part of Endeavour’s programming. Music Therapist and Endeavour Teacher Monique Laflamme works with small groups and individuals in music therapy sessions to help build important communication skills, and to strengthen their ability to express themselves in a safe, relaxing, and fun way. Students work with Monique to set their own achievable goals, and are assessed on their progress in six week cycles. Music therapy has been an established profession in Canada since 1974. It is defined as the following: Music therapy is a discipline in which credentialled professionals (MTA) use music purposefully within therapeutic relationships to support development, health, and well-being. Music therapists use music safely and ethically to address human needs within cognitive, communicative, emotional, musical, physical, social, and spiritual domains. - Canadian Association of Music Therapy 2016 Monique uses a student-centered approach, rooted in cognitive-behavioral psychology, which allows for individualized programming for each student. Methods include instrumental/rhythmic improvisation, singing, songwriting and composition, lyric and song analysis. Making music with others is an innate human ability, and can be used as a tool to help motivate positive social interaction and self-expression, among many other important skills. The goal of a music therapy program is to help students develop skills in their sessions that they can take with them back into the classroom. Comments are closed.
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